What is the range of general damages for a plaintiff who is unable to perform certain household tasks because of injury?

It is important to make a distinction between the household tasks that the plaintiff used to perform prior to the incident and that she can no longer perform at all from those which she can still perform but which cause her pain. If she can no longer perform the tasks, the loss is compensable and assessable and this, whether or not these tasks are no longer being performed at all or will be performed by other members of the family or by a third party. The court must make a separate award of pecuniary general damages on the basis of the substitute homemaker/catalogue of services method of assessment (see Sinclair v. Dines, supra).